Players are drawn to casinos, both land-based online, by the prospects of winning large jackpots that often go well into seven digits. That is why there are so many people these days who play casino games and that is why there are so many operators. With so many available casino, players often don’t know which one to choose.

Having a look at these reviewed and tested online casinos at http://www.casinoshortlist.org/ might be very helpful. There is no guarantee that you will eventually manage to win a huge amount of money, but some people managed to do exactly that. Below we give you the biggest online casino jackpots in the past 5 years.

£13.2 Million in 2015
The largest ever online jackpot pay-out happened in the last year, on the sixth of October. Jon Heywood is the name of the lucky player who won an astonishing amount of £13,212,882 or €17,879,645. The fortunate man is from Crew, Cheshire and he served in the British Military in a mission in Afghanistan.

Heywood won the jackpot with a wager of only 25p and he played Microgaming’s Mega Moolah. His first decision was to provide the best possible medical treatment for his ill father. The Cheshire man also stated that he is not a big spender and will not spend enormous amounts on luxurious items, but that he will buy a nice car with some of the money.

€17.8 Million in 2013
The second largest jackpot amount was pretty close to the first one in terms of the amount that was won. An anonymous person from Finland won a jackpot worth €17,861,813, which only €18,000 more then the prize won by Heywood.

The Finn was playing Mega Fortune at Paf Casino at the beginning of 2013. The CEO of NetEnt congratulated the winner, stating that everybody at the company is happy that the winner was playing one of their slots. A spokesperson for the casino stated that he too was very happy about the win.

$10.4 Million in 2016
The third largest jackpot win in the last 5 years happened this year. The jackpot was hit by an Australian player who was playing at Spin Palace. The total amount of the prize was AU$10.4 million, which was about €7 million at the time.

He was playing Microgaming’s Mega Moolah and with that jackpot the total amount won on Microgaming progressive slots exceeded €574 million. Microgaming’s Head of Casino and a spokesperson for Spin Palace both congratulated the player.

$10.1 Million in 2016
This year we had another huge win and the player was also playing Mega Moolah. The player chose to stay anonymous and s/he won an amount that exceeded $10 million. This win was registered in June.

€8.6 Million in 2012
Almost five years ago another player got lucky whilst playing a slot at Paf Casino. This was another player from Finland and he won a staggering amount of €8,635,872. He was playing Arabian Nights.

The man, who chose to remain anonymous said that he couldn’t believe his fortune and his very eyes when he saw the amount that is available at his casino account. He was hugging his wife for more than five minutes, apparently. A spokesperson for Paf Casino, said that it was them who advised the player to keep his identity secret.

€8.5 Million in 2015
A Swedish man also earned an amount higher than €8.5 million last year. Alexander is his name and he was playing Mega Fortune at ComeOn Casino. The player was playing on his mobile device. Alexander later stated that he was ecstatic and that he woke his wife up in order to share the joy with her.

He also said that he won’t spend a lot of money initially, but that he would pay of his mortgage and treat himself and his wife to a nice holiday.